During my more than two decades at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, I rarely saw football players in my classes. I assumed they thought art was for sissies. Now that I know about the queer mimicry that characterized football team hazing rituals, that explanation seems ironic. Younger Northwestern players were forced by older ones to perform naked chin-ups, run a gauntlet of naked men in locker room showers, have their genitals groped, and be subjected to simulated anal sex. More

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